Weekly Digest Jan. 31, 2014

The Pest of Us Picture a cockroach skittering across your kitchen. Eeww! Now imagine it served as an entree at your local restaurant. There's good reason these diminutive arthropods give us the willies – but they may also be the key to protein-rich meals of the future. Get ready for cricket casserole, as our relationship to bugs is about to change.

Sounds of Jupiter Here is a treat! Click through to hear the sounds of Jupiter, captured by Voyager. (Image Credit: NASA)

Stephen Hawking says there are no black holes Stephen Hawking says there are no black holes. (At least, not as we've defined them.)"The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes — in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity," writes Hawking, in a new paper. In other words, the notion that black holes have an event horizon, which prevents anything from escaping ever, is wrong.

Breathaking Panoramas and Mosaics From Opportunit's Decade on Mars Rover tracks disappear toward the horizon like the wake of a ship between the craters Endurance and Victoria on the Meridiani Plains. Opportunity took the image while stuck in the sand ripple dubbed Purgatory for over a month. This panorama (only partly shown here) was named Rub Al Khali after the "Empty Quarter" in the Arabian Desert.

Majestic Sombrero Galaxy This snap shows the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy. A brilliant white core is encircled by thick dust lanes in this spiral galaxy, seen edge-on in this view. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light years from Earth. Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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